Reducing Medical Record Chart Loss in Godey General Hospital Somali Region, Ethiopia

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2018-01

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Addis Ababa Universty

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Introduction: medical record chart are used to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time, within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction. Background: Godey general hospital has many problems,among those, medical record chart loss is the one that needs attention by senior management, because the loss was high (32 %). Objective to reduce the rate of medical record chart loss in Godey general hospital from 32% to 0% in June 2018. Methods: Pre post interventional study was conducted to measure the rate of medical record chart lost in Godey general hospital, Somali region. The source population was Godey hospital and the target population was all charts in the record unit of the hospital. It has been used sample of 50 medical record charts from the whole chart unit by simple random sampling. Data collection checklist was used to assure the presence or absence of the medical record chart.Finding: decreased medical record chart loss from before the intervention to after the intervention (32% pre intervention and 6% post intervention).

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Medical Record Chart loss, Somali Region, Godey Hospital, Based Pre Post Interventional study.

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